Word: mccomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally in mid-August the first groups of people began to take the five-minute walk down to the court house to get on the registration roles. A Harvard senior, Marshall Ganz '65, helped organize the registration. (Ganz will return to McComb this week and will stay there for a' year...
Acros the state COFO members left that the movement into McComb was a test of the project and their song, We Shall Never Turn Back...
Five Negroes had been murdered in the McComb area during the spring and violence soon greeted the new COFO workers. On July 8 a bomb blast destoyed the front of the Freedom House where ten workers were sleeping. Curtis Hayes was badly cut by flying glass...
Even voter registration was considered too dangerous for the time being. And so a Freedom School was begun to organize the McComb community. Ralph Featherstone, a 25-year-old Negro speech teacher from Washington, D.C., arrived on the project and took charge of the school...
Robert, Coles, Research Psychiatrist to the University Health Services, was in McComb working for COFO during this period. Coles, who was often harassed by city police and once chased by a car at night, recounts one incident...